Michalczewski: I've lost 30 million!

[Derranged]

That ****in **** wife.

[BattlingNelson]

That ****in **** wife.

We've seen it all before. Dempsey, Ali, Tyson all had expensive divorces. There's plenty others.

[skyler]

And that is why you dont get married, or just get a pre-nup.

[Silencers]

Feel sorry for him about the gold diggers but he still shouldn't have spent recklessly.

[josenoway]

gotta love modern divorce laws - you get to climb into a ring, have your head beat in, then watch helplessly as your gold-digging soon-to-be-ex wife walks out with half the paycheck, the keys to your houses, and your kids.

[Mr. Philadel]

Former linear LHW champion Dariusz "Tiger" Michalczewski, who defended his WBO belt a whopping 25 times, is now broke.


Michalczewski takes it on the chin.

"I haven't got my millions any more", DM says to german news outlets. "I earned 30 million euros and had several cars, house with a pool and even a white racehorse! Now I'm broke."

The major problems for DM, as for several other fighters, is the women.

First came a divorce with wife Dorota (they were married twice) which cost the tiger 15 million. "She cared more for her porsche than me" DM says. Today she's living with the 2 sons and her millions in the states.

Then came Patricia. She got 250,000 euros for 5 months of marriage!

The tiger was undefeated for 12 years in the ring. Outside the ring he was often a loser. DM doesn't complain though and he still has his friends.

Today he lives more modest and has a new girlfriend Barbara.

RTL reported yesterday that he's livin' with his mom and that his ex-wife is tryin' to hit him up for more $$$$$$.......sad ****!

[Southpaw16BF]

Pretty Sad news, once again another boxer who lost millions. Yeah him and Sven Oktte were going to fight last year but the fight never come off.Sven is also belived to be having money troubles.

[Southpaw16BF]

[Chase8400]

It was a question of linearity. If one considers Virgil Hill the linear champ then DM was the champ as well. It was broken down earlier in the thread.

For linear champions you should check this out: http://cyberboxingzone.com/boxing/champ.htm

I understand your reasoning, but DM didn't get the 'Ring' title because he was undeserving at the time. Maybe he would have been in another era, but not when Jones was present. He faced limited competition aside from Hill , Griffin and later Gonzalez. Roy Jones came from SMW on a roll and immediately because the divisions center piece. Based on your logic, Zsolt Erdei should be the 'Ring' champ right now when you know he's far from the best light-heavyweight fighter. Calzaghe would toy with him and get rid of him whenever he wanted to. Faded Jones would beat Erdei now.
DM set on his WBO belt and didn't care to venture out and unify with the exception of the Hill fight and as you know, Jones fought him right after and Hill didn't see the 5th round when he went the distance with Dariusz. DM let the IBF strap go after that because he didn't want to defend it against the ranked fighters in that body, which included one, Rjj. Lineage doesn't mean everything when it comes to assigning the 'Ring' title. Besides, DM could have agreed to fight in the US against Jones at any time but didn't want to risk it. It's well documented and there have been several threads on this subject.

[Kid McCoy]

I understand your reasoning, but DM didn't get the 'Ring' title because he was undeserving at the time. Maybe he would have been in another era, but not when Jones was present. He faced limited competition aside from Hill , Griffin and later Gonzalez. Roy Jones came from SMW on a roll and immediately because the divisions center piece. Based on your logic, Zsolt Erdei should be the 'Ring' champ right now when you know he's far from the best light-heavyweight fighter. Calzaghe would toy with him and get rid of him whenever he wanted to. Faded Jones would beat Erdei now.
DM set on his WBO belt and didn't care to venture out and unify with the exception of the Hill fight and as you know, Jones fought him right after and Hill didn't see the 5th round when he went the distance with Dariusz. DM let the IBF strap go after that because he didn't want to defend it against the ranked fighters in that body, which included one, Rjj. Lineage doesn't mean everything when it comes to assigning the 'Ring' title. Besides, DM could have agreed to fight in the US against Jones at any time but didn't want to risk it. It's well documented and there have been several threads on this subject.

Dariusz unified the WBA, IBF and WBO titles and also beat Hill the lineal champ Hill before Jones did. Nigel Collins conceded that under today's rules, Dariusz would likely have been their champ. He was then stripped of the WBA and IBF belts, one for not meeting a mandatory within 30 days and another for displaying it alongside his WBO belt. Regardless, he had established that he was the man at 175. Jones then picked up the belts stripped from Dariusz, as well as the tainted WBC belt, but they were meaningless, because the real champ had never lost them in the ring.

You can't criticize Dariusz for his level of competition yet give Jones a pass. Both had some good wins in the division, but both also fought a lot of crappy mandatories who really had no right to be there. And Dariusz did come to the US to call Jones out, at the Hill fight, but Jones ignored him. There was also nothing to stop Jones going to Germany to face Dariusz. After all, plenty of greats have travelled abroad to face champions, but he priced himself out.